Tuesday, June 30, 2009

In today’s busy and aggressive society mothers at home are not given much encouragement to be committed to their role in being home.

In my weekly 'Hearts for Home' post I am encouraging myself and others to commit to thinking about what 4-6 things we can do each week to bring our thoughts, prayers and actions to keeping our 'Hearts for Home'.

1) To clean out the home school room. We have a lot of clutter in there at the moment and I have been using our dining room table for working. I really prefer working in the end room since it keeps the dining lounge room tidier.

2) Personal prayer. I have been breaking my morning routine of prayer. I just find it hard to get up in the morning and have been feeling very tired. I need to commit to 30 minutes each night I think. The mornings are not working.

3) Reading with the children: I haven't been doing much with this either. Our home schooling for the last two weeks has been the bare essentials and that is it. I realized the other day that I haven't read to the children at all since Tom's first communion.

4) Time with Steve. We haven't been out on our own for a couple of weeks either. Hopefully we will get out for coffee or tea soon.

Monday, June 29, 2009

I have been awarded the True Heart Award from Jillian at home schooling 4 Christ.

Thanks so much Jillian for yet another award.

The true hearts award is:

"Those who receive this award are of the sweetest nature. They are kind, friendly, funny, loving, eager to share their love for Jesus with others, and brave in their efforts to reflect Him to this darkened world. They are the kind of folks you're blessed to know, even if it's only in the bloggy-sphere."

Saturday, June 27, 2009

Tom and Amelia have finished their year 2 and 4 maths book. Next week we will just have a few lessons to finish off. I am going to do religion, reading, spelling and literacy each day. We should be able to finish off the days learning in about 90 minutes as long as they just get on with the work. I have found that when they know they only have a couple of things to do they just get on with it.

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Term 3.

I will do a lot of planning in the holidays. Last term I planned all our lessons during the holidays. I wrote lists for resources I would need for each subject and my plans out. It was much easier to follow. I am becoming better at knowing what they are capable of doing and this helped a lot with the planning.

For maths they will start the year 3 and 5 signpost maths books.

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Christopher.

This week Christopher has woken with some very low sugars and been glazy eyed. I have given him less insulin in the mornings and that seems to have stopped the lows but we have had some really high numbers at lunch and tea time. Last night just before tea he was 30.1 (541). We have decided to start him on a half a unit of novorapid everytime his sugar is over 20.

He didn't go down before bed last night but he woke at 5.8 (104) this morning.

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New Monitor.

Remember when I complained that I didn't want to share my computer? Steve's monitor was being fixed and it took over 6 weeks because the guy needed to wait for a part to come from Korea. Steve decided to go out and buy himself a new monitor. The monitor I had was our original monitor that we bought with our very first computer back in 2000. It has been a great monitor. Steve decided it was time for an upgrade. Yesterday we got the monitor back and he put it on my computer. I really like the big screen.

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lazy morning.

It is now 11.15 and Madeline has just sat down to breakfast. We were up late last night and this morning has been very quiet.

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sewing.

I bought a pattern to make myself a winter jacket. Last year my mother bought Brigette some cord fabric which when we showed her, she didn't like. Good I said, I will have it.

This is the pattern I have:

It is kwik sew pattern 3679 and I will start it this weekend.

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Bishop Greg O'Kelly.

Recently Bishop O'Kelly was appointed Bishop of our diocese. This weekend he is in Port Augusta for both masses. Tomorrow there will be a shared lunch at our parish centre for people to meet him. We will go to the mass tonight and then the lunch tomorrow. I am looking forward to speaking with our bishop.

Thursday, June 25, 2009

1) We have had some visiting Jesuit Priests in our parish this week. They were giving talks on prayer this week on Monday Tuesday and Wednesday night. Even though I was really tired on Tuesday and Wednesday I still made the effort to go and I was very glad I did.

2) I balanced all our bank accounts today and paid all our bills for the fortnight.

3) Tonight the kitchen was a huge mess. Brigette is usually in charge of cleaning up after dinner but it was just too big a job to expect her to do on her own. I volunteered to help her. The kitchen is now done.

The lovely Nancy from Be Not Afraid has given me the honest scrap award.

Thanks so much Nancy for passing this award onto me.

Now...to keep this award, I must do the following:

1) Say thanks and give a link to the presenter of the award.2) Share "ten honest things" about myself.3) Present this award to 7 others whose blogs I find brilliant in content and/or design, or those who have encouraged me.4) Tell those 7 people that they've been awarded HONEST SCRAP and inform them of these guidelines in receiving it :)

so here are the 10 honest things about me:

1) I love being around people.2) My dream holiday is a cruise to some tropical Island.3) I like the renovations we are doing for our house but I really wish they were finished.4) I like living in the country but sometimes I wish we lived closer to family.5) My favourite set of movies is the X Men movies.6) The most annoying thing to me is people stopping in no stopping zones.7) Without a list each day, I don't get anything done.8) My most hated chore is washing clothes.9) I am a bit obsessive with bsl for the boys and worry a lot when I don't know what caused highs or lows.10) My most favourite cuisine is Italian. The best thing I have ever tasted is a lasagna made by an Italian.

Monday, June 22, 2009

Saturday, June 20, 2009

It is a while since I joined in the 7 quick takes. I decided to do it again today.

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Home school.

Only two weeks left of second term. The last couple of weeks seem to drag by and the holidays take forever to come around.

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Bathroom renovation.

Steve is moving along with the renovation. The door has been filled in. Here is a photo taken when the door was removed and the timbers were put in for the wall to go on.

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Holiday plans

The girls want to have a girls outing during the holidays. Steve is planning to paint the bathroom and do the floor tiles.

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Diabetes.

Tom and Christopher both have a check up in Adelaide on the 3rd of July. This is the last day of term so we will finish of school work on Thursday.

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Sewing.

I have been feeling a bit sick of sewing and haven't done very much at all over the last 6 weeks or so. I am going to start doing the continuous curtains for the front windows soon. I also want to sew myself a jacket for winter. I have really been feeling the cold this winter.

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Purple hair.

Sam bought some hair dye and dyed his hair purple. He had a little left over so asked me if he could put a purple streak down the centre of Christopher's hair. I said it was fine so now I have two boys with purple hair. Photos will be coming soon.

Friday, June 19, 2009

Since the biggest looser has finished we have been watching a new series called Masterchef Australia.

I enjoy watching it and getting ideas for new recipes. If we miss any of the programs, you can watch them on the official master chef site.

Each week there is a cook off that the contestants have to work with 2 main ingredients and make a dish and then the best recipe is chosen.

A couple of weeks ago, Chris made steak tartare. When he walked up to the judges with it, I thought yuk, raw steak. It was chosen by the judges as the winning dish. Here is the video of Chris preparing it:

So any of my readers going to try making steak tartare? I personally couldn't imagine putting raw meat in my mouth.

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

I wanted to have a look back through my archives and see some of the things I wrote when I first started blogging. I started blogging back in 2007. It doesn't really seem that long ago. Time just flies when you enjoy something I suppose.

Sunday, June 14, 2009

Today Tom received his First Communion. It was a lovely mass and I got a lump in my throat watching him go forward. He bowed very reverently and then received. I have lots of photos and will upload them later.

We have had Tom's God parents and 4 of their children here for the weekend as well as my mother and Steve's mother. Tom's God parents have left this afternoon and tomorrow Steve's mum and my mum will drive back to Adelaide.

It has been a great weekend and I am sure it will be a wonderful memory for Tom in years to come.

Friday, June 12, 2009

The pump was found inbetween the slats of the lounge. You can see on the pump, that the tube broke right at the edge of it. I set the pump up and put it in. Even though he had the background insulin his bsl went up to 21.3.(383) so we have corrected and hopefully he will come down.

Today my mother and mother in law arrive for Tom's first communion. They are staying till Monday. On Saturday, Tom's God parents will arrive with 4 of their 5 children. We will have a full house but I am sure it will be a fun and memorable time for Tom.

I still have a few things to prepare before Sunday for Tom but I am confident it will all get done.

Sunday, June 07, 2009

Friday, June 05, 2009

I have been so busy with real life that my blog and reading others has had to take a bit of a back seat. Hopefully things will quieten down a bit after Tom's first communion.

We have my mother and mother in law coming to stay next Thursday. They will stay for the weekend. Tom's God parents will come with 4 of their children on Saturday afternoon and stay for the night.

I also have had a bit of bloggers block. I sometimes find it hard to think about what to post about. I usually fall back onto the weekly posts like the The Simple Women's Daybook or Small Successes but I have even had trouble thinking about what to post with those posts.

Finally today I had an idea about what I could post about. I did want to do a couple of more posts on diabetes and living with it. I thought though, I really want to know what you want to know so here is your opportunity. Ask me any questions you have about diabetes in the comment box and I will do another post in a couple of days about it.

Have a great weekend. We celebrate the Queens birthday this weekend so have a public holiday on Monday. I am looking forward to the long weekend.

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Our sons Tom and Christopher and our daughter Amelia are type one diabetics. We pray everyday for a cure. We do not want one by illicit means though so don't support any organisation that contributes to Embryonic Stem Cell Research. Click on the photo of Tom and Christopher to read about why I am against using Embryonic Stem cells for a cure.

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